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Bardeen Prize

William L. McMillan

The John Bardeen Prize was established in 1991 by the organizers of the International Conference on the Materials and Mechanisms of Superconductivity (M2S) in
honor of Dr. John Bardeen for theoretical work that has provided significant insights on the nature of superconductivity and has led to verifiable predictions.
The award is sponsored by the Department of Physics of the University of Illinois and by the Friends of Bardeen.

The Bardeen Prize is given every three years at the M2S Conference.

Winners of the John Bardeen Prize

Vinay Ambegaokar, Ithaca, NY, USA

“for his contributions to the statics, dynamics and kinetics of Josephson junctions and nanowires.”

“For their work on unconventional superconductivity: to James Avery Sauls and Chandra M. Varma for their works on the identification of the pairing symmetry, pairing mechanism, and multiple superconducting phases in heavy-fermion superconductors , and to Steven Allan Kivelson for his works on the role of phase fluctuations and on the interplay between unconventional superconductivity and electronic inhomogeneity”

David Pines (2009), Tokyo, Japan

“for phonon-mediated pairing of electrons in conventional superconductors and superfluidity in nuclear matter”

“for their work on quasiparticles in superconductors: to A. Andreev for the prediction of Andreev scattering, to K. Maki for his work on gapless
quasiparticle excitations due to pair-breaking and for elucidating the role of fluctuations and to D. Scalapino for his contributions to life time effects of
quasiparticles and how strong correlations affect their properties”

“for the physical insight he brought to the understanding of the superconducting state in strongly correlated materials in general, and for the prediction
of unconventional pairing in Sr2RuO4 in particular”

Philip Anderson (1997), Beijing, China

“for his contributions to the understanding of broken symmetry, the order parameter in the A and B phases of superfluid helium three and the role
of impurities in metallic superconductors”

Anthony J. Leggett, G. M. Eliashberg (1994), Grenoble, France

“for the development of the pairing theory to account for the thermodynamic and dynamic properties of strong coupling superconductors”

“The John Bardeen prize was awarded to a group of theoreticians who, in cooperation, developed
the GLAG theory which has proved the most useful tool to investigate superconductivity phenomenologically
and, further, has also been playing a vital role in the studies of the high temperature
superconductors. ”